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Rousseau and Romanticism

Note 19 — Chapter I · THE TERMS CLASSIC AND ROMANTIC

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Perhaps the most romantic lines in English are found in one of Camillo’s speeches in The Winter’s Tale (IV, 4):

a wild dedication of yourselves To unpath’d waters, undream’d shores.

This “wild dedication” is, it should be noted, looked upon by Camillo with disfavor.

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